When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?

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From: Doug Dougherty
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 19:17

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Upon what does it depend?  The version of DOS?  The kind of drive
(LD or HD, 5.25" or 3.5") or what?

I know you didnt used to be able to do this (Gosh, what grammar!),
so that if, for example, you bought a box of preformatted disks, but
needed them to be system disks, you had to reformat them all anyway.
--

	(Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)

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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?
Summary: Question about SYSing floppies originally formatted w/o /S
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